SP 28/131/4

Account book listing dragoon and draught horses and equipment subscribed for the Earl of Essex's parliamentary army under the system known as the Propositions. This is a fair copy compiled by the commissaries John Smith and Thomas Richardson from several original accounts that no longer survive. This copy was submitted to the Committee for Taking Accounts of the Whole Kingdom on 26 April 1644.

A contemporary note on f.1r states that most of the horses were listed in the counties by deputy lieutenants and then sent up to London along with the lists. Many of these original lists have been silently merged into the main account and can only be deduced from clusters of place names, but some are clearly separated and the local commissaries identified: